A Touch of the Dreich! by Fiona Phipps

A very successful experiment Fiona, you've produced an exciting abstract painting which conveys a 'dreich ' day so well and those little touches of red/pink are a master touch.

What a great result Fiona, sounds an interesting technique, will give it a go. Love your palette.

Thank you very much ladies! We’ve had a few Dreich days Val, you too I bet. It’s useful as a replacement for expensive pastel papers Sarah, with the added bonus of being able to paint a watercolour on top of the clear gesso. It takes a little longer to dry but to have that key of the texture, pastel, graphite and charcoal has a better chance of staying put.

Love the textures, it gives a lot of atmosphere. Fascinating technique, very successful x

Goodness Fiona, you do like a spot of experimenting, and very successfully here! We’ve had more than a few dreich days here as well, and I think you’ve captured the feel really well.

Has strong impact Fiona.

A most successful experiment!!

It has worked well Fiona, lovely effects.

This works very wellFiona.Very original piece of work.

Very effective Fiona! Absolutely stunning piece 😀

Sounds like an exciting process. Love the directional light strokes and how the end result looks so good Fiona.

Beautiful textures 💗

That’s some explosive cloudburst!! Love the textures Fiona

Lots of atmosphere Fiona!

The experiment worked very well.

Great work Fiona. Thanks for the suggestion about gesso, I’m going to try that sometime. Your painting is very effective!

Very atmospheric piece - worked well.

Beautifully done Fiona.

That is so good Fiona. You have posted really excelent paintings recently.

Your mish mash is delightful Fiona.

It's a good experiment Fiona

A real mixed media indeed Fiona…great atmosphere and mark making!

Thank you ever so much everyone for your positive comments on my mish, mash! As I write, the sun is shining….hoorah!

Brilliant ,expressive,

Thanks Mick, appreciate that.

Well here's how to make 'driech' look attractive Fiona! Very good and very expressive. Just to say too; I enjoyed reading your collaboration with Alan about ink-making in techniques, really interesting.

Hi Karen, thank you for your lovely comment, and so glad you enjoyed the ink making feature. Hope it will inspire you to have a go, as I know you use inks in your art work.

Superbly dramatic and atmospheric Fiona

Thank you Brian, you are very kind.

My word Fiona you really know how to produce a true image of a typical Scottish Dreich and those splashes of pink really lift it. I have yet to read your articles about ink making but the idea sounds very appealing. Yes I did get your E-mail than you and will update you with news in due course.

Hi Carol, thank you x Let’s face it, I get plenty of practice painting Dreich days! 😂

Love the sky as there is so much going on, wonderfully atmospheric and very free marks. Love it!

Thank you very much William, you are very kind.

Wow - so atmospheric Fiona!

Thank you Shaun!